Single-player games like Football School
Below are 16 single-player Steam games similar to Football School, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Football Manager 2017
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Football School.
Take control of your favourite football team in Football Manager 2017, the most realistic and immersive football management game to date. It’s the closest thing to doing the job for real!
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WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Football School.
Welcome to WE ARE FOOTBALL 2024! Dive into the world of football like never before. Choose an existing club or start your own. Manage either men or women, lead your club to new heights, and become the next manager legend!
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Game Dev Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football School.
In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
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Soccer Manager 2026
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Football School.
Manage elite football clubs and lead your dream team as a football manager!
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Esports Life Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football School.
Manage your own esports squad, expand your gaming house, and defeat legendary teams to become the best in the world!
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Motorsport Manager
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Football School.
Have you got what it takes to become the manager of a high-performance motorsport team? Motorsport Manager is a highly detailed, best-in-class management game for fans of motorsport. You’ll hire the drivers, build the cars and embed yourself in the dynamic world of racing.
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Football, Tactics & Glory
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Football School.
XCOM meets Football Manager. Develop your club, earn experience in turn-based matches, learn new skills, achieve new classes, upgrade your facilities, buy and sell footballers, grow your youth academy, make difficult choices. It's a deep strategy game that respects your time.
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New Star™ Manager
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football School.
This is soccer management like you’ve never experienced it - Be more than just a player, be the head, the heart, and backbone of New Star FC. Be the Manager.
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Pro Gamer Manager
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football School.
Compete for stardom in this Esport management tycoon.
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Boxing School
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football School.
BOXING SCHOOL! Take control of a boxing gym in the 80s. You’ll hire the boxers, teach them to fight and climb the ranks. Management game made by the developers of Gladiator School.
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Gladiator School
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football School.
Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.
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Tower Walker: MMO Grind Simulator
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football School.
Tower Walker is a fresh new type of addictive semi-idle auto-grinder rich with features, inspired by classic MMORPGS and RTS games with indirect control over your hero. The mysterious tower awaits!
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Gamer Career Tycoon
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Football School.
Start your life as a simple gamer in the year 2000. Find popular games to stream or compete in 8 different Esports. Who will you be? Play your career and story. Can you become the most famous broadcaster or the best progamer in the world?
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Dino Nest
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football School.
Dinosaur survival management game. Lead your own pack of dinos and feed to grow bigger. Can you survive or will you become extinct?
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Please Subscribe: Streamer Career
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football School.
Please Subscribe is the sequel to Gamer Career Tycoon from 2018. Develop your own livestream channel from the ground up. Manage and operate, overcome challenges, learn new tricks in order to rise in the charts, and possibly, become the next big internet superstar.
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Boxing School 2
Single-player alternative to Football School — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Football School.
BOXING SCHOOL 2! Take control of a boxing gym in the 80s. You’ll hire the boxers, teach them to fight and climb the ranks. This is the improved and refined sequel to the management game Boxing School.